Open AccessPredictors for Successful Treatment of Pediatric Deep Neck Infections Using Antimicrobials Alone
Author(s) -
Michael Bolton,
Wei Wang,
Andrea Hahn,
Octavio Ramilo,
Asunción Mejías,
Preeti Jaggi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0b013e31829331f2
Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , antimicrobial , multivariate analysis , abscess , surgery , computed tomography , chemistry , organic chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Among hospitalized children with parapharyngeal or retropharyngeal infection, multivariate analysis was performed for the outcomes: successful treatment with antibiotics alone, absence of complications and length of stay less than 3 days. Those with apparent abscess on computed tomography scan had a lower probability of treatment with antimicrobials alone while older age was associated with increased probability of treatment with antibiotics alone.